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Show TELEGRAPHIC Its-SI MM OF A III K( II SKXSATIO.N. A Weak Woumn Fnf tils A 'auic una L,osm ot'l.ilo Nuw York, 9. At lho dutrch ot St. Fruueia X:ivier, wheio the fatal panic ofciurid uu ThiiKiluy night, Father Langu-uliu was preaclitng u aennuu and had been speaking ahuil ten liiinnttH, wiun a woman went into an !.ttric lil in Hie gaik-ry on the hidu ot tliu rlnuvh towauls Sixth avenue. This created (jmiu a stir and the eoiu nujlion iiietuaaed in the eiidcavorj of the crowd to Lind out what was the matter. At this juncture 1I1K CUV 01' l-.KE was heard and a rush was made for the exit h um tho gallery. The door-way door-way wad bloi-kid lor a moment by a very large woman and this check caused the panic to increase ten (old. The crowd burled women down the slupo. lu Lhe rui-li tliat followed seven persons were crushed to death and many others injured, and their clothing turn from them. The woiiikkd were l:iken home. Before ' the names could be learned the bodies , of ihc dead wi re identified aa follows: ' Mary Caey ul '2li'J West Kighteenlh f itrec-t. Ann Spencer and Michael Suencor. ' of SO Ninth avenue. Mary Cougldau, 02 Weat Twenty-rjlth Twenty-rjlth street. Eliz.i M.ltTtou, 40S Seventh avenue. ave-nue. Ann Foihea, 61 West Nineteenth street. At the station house a hearlreuder-ing hearlreuder-ing scene was presented. The peoplo in the hotly of the church were quieted and dismissed in an ordivly manner. At the time of the alarm Father Lungiache wa-s pruaching on hell and THE LIOKUUKS 01" THE DAMNICD and as the preacher was picturing the torments of purgatory a yuuu woman wo-man in ihe corner of the gallery, overcome by her feelings, fainted and gave utterance to a hysterical scream, : startling the worshippers and causing them lo rpring to tiieir icel. Tins 1 next moment lome reckless person! cried "tiro," and this gave rise to a panic. Father Langiachc implored . the poop'.e to keep their seats as there was no cause for alarm. Father Mtr- rick, the pastor, lizard the screams and nibbed into the sanctuary, lie called upon the congregation to keep 1 their acatn, as Hit re was no lire. The congregation was dismissed and the . organ began lo play. Tne women in the main body ol Ihe church and gal-, gal-, lery patd out in an orderly manner. The people occupying thai portion ol the gaikry where the commotion had began and centered rushed toward the exit from Ihe galleries, and almost al-most crazy with fear pushed and fought their way into lho narrow btairway leading lo Sixteenth street. The stairway is but four feet wide, and within three or four st-pa of the bottom makes a sharp turn before it reaches tho vestibule. Tho crowd of maddened women rushed down ibe stairs and would probably all bavo reached Ihe street in safety but at the bend in the stairway an oed and very stout woman in her eageriKs.- to reach the place of safety FELL HEADLOSU DOWN THE STA1HS Before she could regain her feet the frantic ' crowd pressing on toward tne vectibule came upon her prostrate form, and those in the foremost ranks fell tipjn her. In a mornpiit the passage way was choked and a eccne ol the wildest confusion and most intense in-tense fxeitemeut emued. Tne crowd i in Hie rear pressed on with almost irresistible force and nothing could be 1 done to stop their advance. The crazed V.'0MEX FOCGI1T THZIlt WAY toward ihe choked-up stairway, trampling upon those who hnd fallen i in front and crushing the life out of them. They screamed and fought ; -like maniacs and every etlort to hold j them back, eo that the stairway couid I ' be cleared, was of no avad. F.tLlier Whyte and several othor J priests, wiio were in the church, parlors par-lors at tin; time lho panic occurred 1 rushed round lo the front of the church and asiisted hy patrolmen by main force dragged 0-t sonic of tho women who were lying on the stairs. A number of women were then got out alive and otdy slightly injured. In the struggle for lite they were almost al-most derived of tiieir clothing. As the priests and police aided hv a (number of citizens made their way up the staircase they found lying on the steps four other women and a small boy. These were taken out to the optn air, hut hie was extinct. One woman, Ann Forbes, was brought out alivo and apparently not much injured. She v. allied with the assistanco of lho police to a drug store on Sixth avenue, near Sixteenth street, where she expiied in a lew moments. mo-ments. This morning in the St. Francis Xavier church where the calamity of lat night happened a solemn mas of requiem was olio red for tho dead and prajcrs said for the speedy recov cry of tho wounded. |